Indian coach Greg Chappell said that Irfan Pathan was struggling because he was trying bit too hard
Pakistan's coach said the ace fast bowler can return to the side only if he is full fit.
Glenn McGrath continued to lead the bowlers' list in the ICC Test rankings
West Indies coach Gus Logie has had his contract with the team "terminated by mutual consent", the West Indies Cricket Board has said.
The West Indies trailed England by 244 runs at the close of the second day of the first Test in Antigua on Tuesday after Shivnarine Chanderpaul applied the brakes to any potential batting slump
WI have named spinner Dave Mohammed as a replacement for injured fast bowler Jerome Taylor for the tour of South Africa.
A confident India, with a new coach at the helm, will seek to record a third consecutive Test series triumph on the Caribbean soil when the Virat Kohli-led side clashes with an inexperienced West Indies in the first cricket match, in Antigua, on Thursday.
Mervyn Dillon, a veteran of 98 ODIs, also returns to the squad.\n\n
The common denominator: They were predominantly Gujarati, mostly male, and either related by blood or very well-known to Nirav.
The next World Cup's managing director said preparations began immediately after the bid to host the competition was won five years ago.
West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite says India have a formidable batting line-up and the contest will be equally tough against the Indian spinners when the four-Test series begins at Antigua on July 21. "Their batting line-up is undoubtedly one of the stronger batting line-ups in the world, home and away, and unfortunately or fortunately for us it a lot similar to India in the Caribbean," Brathwaite was quoted as saying by the WICB website.
Taking the floor immediately after his election, Ashe, who is Antigua and Barbuda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, said that in 18 months, the world body would launch an agenda for sustainable development for all
After resuming on 70 for 1, India A added 229 runs at the expense of seven wickets as the visitors were placed at 299 for 8 at stumps on Day 2 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. India A had bowled out the home side for 228 on the first day.
Struggling England batsman Ian Bell is backing himself to come good at number three in this week's third Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston.
The Aussie registered the highest score in Test history posting 380 runs against Zimbabwe.
If the absconding jeweller is traced in Britain, the extradition request to the UK government could follow a similar course as the case of embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya
England, all out for 285 in the first innings, were still 466 behind West Indies' mammoth 751-5 declared after day four of the fourth Test.
The tourists now lead the series 2-0 with the fourth and final Test starting in Antigua on Friday.
Brian Lara will captain West Indies for the home series against England and Bangladesh.
The reason cited is a persistent back injury.
The Aussie skipper joined Lloyd as the most successful captain in Test cricket after the nine-wicket victory over the West Indies in the third Test.
Fast bowler Tino Best and off-spinner Omari Banks will make \n\ntheir Test debuts, against Australia.\n\n\n\n
England, chasing 455 to pull off the highest successful run chase in Test history, reached 44 for no wicket at the close on a rain-hit fourth day of the second and final match of the series against New Zealand on Monday.
West Indies ODI captain Jason Holder feels that his stint at Chennai Super Kings was a well spent one as he learnt about the nuances of captaincy from none other than India's limited overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's Chief Executive Officer Rahul Johri will be in Jamaica to meet Indian captain Virat Kohli and his team, in an attempt to get a feedback on the appointment of the new head coach.
The West Indies captain said he will take his place for this weekend's back-to-back games in Trinidad.
India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday made it clear that he will give his views on the new coach only if his opinion is sought by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Pointing out that Ajinkya Rahane has the quality to open and play in the middle-order, India captain Virat Kohli insisted that he could see the former providing greater balance to the side than anyone else.
Winning is 'contagious' and Indian Test captain Virat Kohli feels that it is a 'good habit' that his boys can create in order to become a formidable Test team anywhere in the world.
With two fifties in the two practice games, Lokesh Rahul has virtually staked claim for a Test spot when the series against the West Indies gets underway in Antigua on July 21 but the youngster says that thought has not yet struck him.
The Indians dominated the Test match for four days at Sabina Park with both bat and ball. Yet, they fell short of the victory marker on the fifth and final day when they needed to take six wickets in 98 overs.
The spotlight though was on the 36-year-old former India captain, who now has to fend off questions about his future with alarming regularity.
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